This folder contains a general bibliography relating to the iconography of the Virgin Mary. Epithets of the Virgin Mary mentioned: Abalatskaia, Abdul'skaia or Mechenskaia, Afanas'evskaia, Afinskaia or Afiniotissa or Traianopolitissa, Agiosoritissa...

Photographs document the transfer and conservation of the “Etyemez fresco” (also described as the “Samatya fresco”) near Yedikule in Istanbul, from 1957-1958. The fresco, depicting the Virgin and Christ Child, was discovered in a small apse on a p...